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Nanospintronics meets relativistic quantum physics: Ubiquity of Zitterbewegung effects

2007/07/25 by U. Zülicke, R. Winkler, J. Bolte +1
Computer Science · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Carbon Nanotubes in Composites #Graphene research and applications #Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata #cond-mat.mes-hall

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physe.2007.09.035

published as Physica E 40, 1434 (2008) · 4 pages, elsart style

arxiv created 2007/07/25 · openalex publication_date 2007/09/21 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We present a unified description of zitterbewegung-like phenomena for electron and hole systems showing Rashba spin splitting as well as for electrons in single-layer and bilayer graphene. The former class of systems can be interpreted as "nonrelativistic" whereas the latter are often called "ultrarelativistic" so that our unified description indicates an interesting connection between these two opposite limits.

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